FEBRUARY 1st, 2008

All events are free and take place in the School of Image Arts, 3rd Floor Sound Stage (122 Bond Street, Dundas, subway station), except as noted.

French conference will have simultaneous English translation.

The Effects of Remote Presence - Moderator Gerda Cammaer

9:00 –  Pierre Ouellet (UQAM), “La communauté des étrangers dans l’œuvre de Zhang Huan, Spencer Tunick et Vanessa Beecroft”

9:30 – Christine Palmieri (UQAM), “Zones d’affinité.  Une esthéthique de la fluidité”

10:00 – Martine Époque, Denis Poulin (UQAM), “« NoBody DANSE…», Une danse sans corps”

10:30 – Marie-Christiane Mathieu (Independent Artist, Montreal), “L'aître”

11:00 – Break

11:30 – Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal), “Alone Together, Ici et Là: Paradoxes et vertus de la télé-présence"

12:00 – Alain Fleischer (le Fresnoy, France)

12:30 Lunch

The Effects of Remote Presence - Moderator Mark Argo

1:30 – Steve Daniels (Ryerson University), “A Space Between”

2:00 – Paula Gardner (OCAD), “Portage: Making a Virtual Street Theatre Via Mobile Technology”

2:30 – Nina Czegledy (independent media artist, curator and writer, Toronto), “Mapping time and space”

3:00 – Greg Van Alstyne, OCAD, (Ontario College of Art & Design)
Faculty of Design, Associate Professor, “Having My Cake and Eating it Too: Distance Learning and the Kindness of Colleagues”

4:00 vernissage expo Mario Côté 2 programmes: Image Arts Gallery, 3rd Floor
Programme 1:          
Parcours dans l’oeuvre vidéographique de Mario Côté
Programme 2:
Le bruit des mots, l’image encore
(Performance, photo parlante et vidéo)
Commissaire: Mario Côté

5:00 - Coopération des écoles d’art; le Fresnoy,
Frédéric Papon, Ryerson, Pierre Tremblay IMA 304

- "R. Bruce Elder, un portrait" de Frédéric Papon, 2008, 32 min.
- “R. Bruce Elder - Writer, Filmmaker, Professor “ a film by Pierre Tremblay, 2007, 45 min.

Films were made as a collaboration between le Fresnoy – Studio National, Tourcoing, France and Ryerson University, Faculty of Communication and Design, the School of Image Arts, with the support of CULTURESFRANCE Ministère des affaires étrangères – France de la Délégation aux arts plastiques (DAP) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – France and le Consulat de France à Toronto.